Reference Shelf 10.13.05

A little roundup of tips that can help the average writer.
Writing about buying and selling housing your thing? Have you checked out the National Associatin of Real Estate Editors?
If you want a reason to write every day, you might try a fiction blog, dedicating yourself to a chapter a day. Writer Ray Rhamey has given it a shot and is enjoying it: maybe you will too.
I am so excited about this. Gmaps now has a pedometer map, so you can see how many calories you can burn walking to the store to buy more marshmallows. Good for sedentary-type writers. (via Sree.)
Are you working too slow? Via Lifehacker, how to speed up Windows XP.

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